#Racing of the night book summary movie#
The Art of Racing In the Rain Movie AdaptationĪs mentioned above, The Art of Racing In the Rain will be released in theaters on August 9, 2019. If Enzo had spent more time doing stuff like that and less time spouting truisms and ogling women’s breasts, I probably would have had more enthusiasm for this book. I’m betting that (or some variation of it) ends up in the movie. When Enzo makes his opinion clear by peeing all over a set of papers, I had to admit that was a pretty good scene. Even knowing I wasn’t into it, there were a few parts that made me smile. I won’t get into it, since I don’t want to spoil anything, but that’s probably what sealed this book’s fate for me.Īnyway, I told myself I’d say at least one nice thing, so I’ll add that the book is not without it’s charms. Most notably it perpetuates idea that women constantly lie about sexual assault. There’s also some extremely problematic issues involving one of the plotlines. Shouldn’t he have an equal interest in male reproductive parts? Funny how that works. And, for a dog, he seems very concerned with women’s breasts. There’s a number of parts where it made no sense for him to narrate, like scenes in a hospital or a courtroom. (If you’ve read the book, I’m referring to Lucca and the scene with the father.)Īlso, I didn’t get the point of the whole dog-narrator gimmick or why it was used for the story. In both instances, it’s an overly convenient way for Denny to deal with certain problems. For example, there’s two fortuitous occurrences, both of which occur as nakedly Deus Ex Machina-esque events. The plot contrivances in this book are numerous as well. Instead of having any type of character growth or depth (they’re all two-dimensional static characters), the book just offers up cliche after cliche in terms of the characters, the plot and any type of insight it has to offer. Or when the book (or rather, a philosophizing dog) makes the point that in racing you have to keep going even when things get tough, just like in life, it’s all so overwhelmingly obvious. Learning to anticipate movements in the car is turned into a truism about embracing your own destiny, that sort of thing. I also would’ve enjoyed the parts about racing more, except in it insists on transforming most of those parts into metaphors for extremely trite life lessons and platitudes. The book isn’t so much trying to tug at your heartstrings as it is desperately yanking at them in a deranged fervor. But the questionable aspects of this book went beyond all that, and they just kept piling up.įor starters, this book shot so far past just being sappy that it started to edge into seeming emotionally manipulative.įrom the sentimentality of a dog-narrated story, to the dead wife (this is not a spoiler, we find this out in the first few pages), to the plainly unfair and outrageous situation that Denny finds himself in, to the two-dimensional villains in the story, to the helpless little girl whose only desire is to see her dog and her father, to the highs and lows of car racing.
I went into this knowing it would be a little sappy and the dog-narrator thing was too gimmicky for my tastes and mentally prepared myself to just let it go and enjoy the story. You also find out that Eve, Denny’s wife, has passed away, so that should give you some sense of where there story is going. See The Art of Racing in the Rain on Amazon.įrom the very first chapter, the book sets forth the uncomplicated, boundless love Enzo (the dog) has for Denny and the uncomplicated, boundless love that Denny has for Enzo. It’s a story about love, loss, triumphs, grief, family, hardships and of course racing.
#Racing of the night book summary plus#
He narrates the story about his life with Denny, plus Denny’s wife Eve and daughter Zoe, and everything that’s happened in their time together. When the book opens, Enzo is near the end of his life. Enzo is a dog who was adopted by a race car driver, Denny. The Art of Racing in the Rain is narrated by Enzo. Plot Summaryįor the Detailed Plot Summary, click here or scroll all the way down. This isn’t generally the type of book I like, but I thought I’d give this a shot anyway. I love Marley & Me, another movie about dogs and life (plus Jennifer Aniston is awesome in it), so I’m planning on seeing this one as well.
I always plan on reading books before the movie comes out, but this time I actually did it, yay! The movie adaptation of Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing n the Rain is being released on August 9th.
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